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This is an update of Benjamin Lin's implementations of dos2unix andunix2dos. Benjamin Lin's implementations of dos2unix and unix2dosare part of several Linux distributions such as RedHat, Fedora, Suse,Gentoo and some others. On Slackware one finds fromdos and todos butthese implementations are not included. This update includes all RedHatpatches and fixes several other problems.

These implementations of dos2unix and unix2dos have been modelled afterdos2unix/unix2dos under SunOS/Solaris. They have similar conversionmodes, namely ascii, 7bit and iso. The first versions were made byJohn Birchfield in 1989, and in 1995 rewritten from scratch by BenjaminLin. Mac to Unix conversion was added by Bernd Johannes Wuebben in 1998,Unix to Mac by Erwin in 2010.